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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6230)	2/19/2001 2:02:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You're probably right that there would be some deterrence. You may be satisfied with "some level of deterrence." I'm not. I want the world I live in to be as safe as it's always been- The point is that it seems the concealed carry laws and the "some level of deterrence" make it safer then "it always has been." I don't want to carry a gun, Neither do I. I don't own a gun and have no plans to buy one. I live in a state that allows liberal concealed carry permits so I could get such a permit an a gun, but I feel no need to have one. The law allowing concealed carry doesn't do a thing to make it more important for me to have a gun, in fact if it deters crime it may make it less important for people to go armed. Tim, I'm not against carry laws, all other things being equal. But isn't it stupid to have to keep escalating our protection levels like this just because some people are intransigent about protecting their precious rights to build an arsenal? The protection levels are escalated (if they are escalated at all) because of armed criminals not because of people that resist gun control laws. I submit that unless we want to repeal the 2nd amendment (either officially or by ignoring it and hoping it goes away) and then pass new very strict gun control laws and then form a harsh and effective police state to enforce them, that criminals will be able to get guns. Look at all our "success" in stopping illegal drugs. Why should guns be easier to stop? They don't even have to be replaced as often. One criminal wanting a gun needs one gun. One drug addict will have to keep getting more. Tim